Pilot Taps VeriSign Trust Services for Enterprise Clients

A few days after signing webMethods
Inc. as its first client for its new B2B trust services, VeriSign Inc. Thursday
reeled in Pilot Network Services Inc. as
a new customer for the same suite of security tools.

Pilot (PILT)
will use the trust services for its subscription-based extranet services for
enterprise customers. VeriSign’s (VRSN)
digital certificates have been integrated with the Pilot security
infrastructure to provide managed authentication services.

VeriSign’s B2B trust services facilitate high value transactions between
enterprises and their trading partners on the Net. These services enable
real-time proof of the identity and privileges of buyers and suppliers
through the distribution of digital certificates.

“By integrating VeriSign’s digital certificates with our secure hosting,
extranet and VPN services, we can deliver a broad range of solutions to
protect enterprise networks,” said Marketta Silvera, Pilot Network Services’
president and chief executive officer.

“Thousands of VeriSign digital certificates are in use in our security centers, to assure the millions of
electronic transactions that Pilot Protected clients conduct
around-the-clock.”

The latest news from VeriSign follows the firm’s March acquisition
domain registrar Network Solutions, which
surpassed the 10-million name mark last week.

VeriSign inked the $21-billion deal to offer its customers a more complete
set of e-commerce products services by combining its security software with
Network Solutions’ (NSOL)
giant database of domain names and Web development services.